With the prevalence of goth-glam-swag, it’s no surprise that the skull motif is everywhere. It is a bit surprising that people are so enthused about eating it. Enterprising people have created skulls from almost every type of edible. We’ve scoured the interwebs and pulled together the top five best and worst examples of chowable craniums for your viewing pleasure. Best first, of course:

Young’s gifted touch with truffles, brownies and drinking chocolate have made his Islington store a fixture in our orbit around London. My wife’s pregnancy was eased with his sea-salt caramels; we celebrated the birth with kalamansi truffles. The baby practically melted when she first tried a crumb

Our Most Common Cooking Mistakes

Every cook, being human, errs, bungles, botches, and screws up in the kitchen once in a while. If you have not “caramelized” fruit in salt rather than sugar, you have not suffered the most embarrassing mistake made by one of our editors. We did not have to look much farther than our staff―and their encounters with readers, friends, and relatives―to compile a list of 25 common, avoidable culinary boo-boos.